Bird cage



Dec. 18, 1923.

A. CHADWICK BIRD CAGE Filed July 24 1923 Patented Dec. 18, i923.

srs

ALFRED CHADWICK, OF NEW HAVEN, CQNNECTXCUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE ANDREW B. HENIDBYX G0,, OF NE'MV HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

BIRD CAGE.

Application filed July 24,

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALFRED CHADWIGK,

a citizen of the United States, residing at New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bird Cages; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of W reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear,

and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application.

This invention relates to improvement in bird cages, and particularly to cages in which the wire frame is provided with a base-rail which sets onto a pan with which it is adapted to be connected. In the more gen eral construction of cages, wires are connected with the bottom portion of therail, and sometimes project through the bottom rail so as to provide a multiplicity of openings, through which vermin may pass, and this mail must be of sufficient strength to 95 properly support the cage. a

The ob'ect of this invention is to form the base-rail from comparatively light sheetmetal, so reinforced as to give sufficient strength and with which the wires are so connected that no openings are formed in the lower edge of the base-rail, and the invention consists in the construction as hereinafter described and particularly recited in the claims.

The accompanying drawings represent in Fig. 1 a broken face view of the lower portion of a bird cage illustrating my invention and showing the ends of the rail connected.

Fig. 2 a bro-ken inside View of the same parts, showing two of the cage wires as being entered into position.

Fig- 3 a sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

- Fig. 1 a sectional view on the line H of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 a broken top view of the base-rail.

In carrying out my invention, a base-rail 10 is formed from sheet-metal, comprising a web-portion 11, the upper edge of which is rolled to formv a flange 12, the strip being folded around a rod 13, the other edge 1 1 of the metal extending parallel with and against the Web 11. In the top portion of 1923. Serial No. 653,472.

the flange 12 are a series of holes 15, through which the side wires 16 are passed, these wires being provided at their lower ends with right angular bends 17 entering beneath the flange 12, as indicated in Fig. 4, which is then closed down upon them, as indicated in Fig. 3 of the drawings. This folded flange forms a socket 18 at one end of the rail, and a wire 19, at the right, is formed with a long bend 20, so as to project beyond the end of the rail and form a top dowel-pin therefor. The rod 13, which is enclosed by the strip, also projects beyond one end 21 of the rail, so as to form a bottom dowel-pin therefor, and at the opposite end the rod 13 does not extend to that end of the rail, 'and so provides a socket 22 corresponding to the socket 18. The rail is formed up so as to enclose the rod 13, with its flange left open, and after the cage wires have been put into place and fixed, as above described the rail is bent into the desired shape of t e finished cage, and the ends brought together, so that the dowels 20 and 21 enter the sockets 18 and 22, as clearly indicated in Fig. 1 of the drawings, so as to hold the ends of the rail together. In this construction, the web 11 being reinforced by the edge 14: of the strip, gives the necessary amount of rigidity, this being reinforced by the rod 13. The cage wires 16 closely fit in the holes 15, and these holes are at the top of the rail and, consequently, do not form pockets to attract vermin.

It will be understood that the bottom rails are readily formed up in metal-working machines, and, consequently, can be produced at a low cost for manufacture, and the cage, when completed, is very rigid.

I claim:

1. In a bird cage, the bottom rail thereof comprising "a strip of metal, a rod around which one edge of the metal is folded, the other edge having a perforated flange, cage wires extending through said perforated flange and formed with bends adapted to rest within said flange, the bend of one wire projecting beyond one end of the rail, and one end of the rod also projecting beyond the same end of the rail, both projections forming dowels, the other end of the rail provided with sockets adapted to receive said dowels.

2. A bird cage having a bottom rail formed from a strip of metal, said strip rail formed at its opposite end with sockets foldedfllongitudinslly, wherebyadouble web to receive said dowels.

is formed, said fold "enclosing a wire rod In. testimony whereof, I have signed this projecting at one end beyond the rail to form specification in the presence of two subserib- 5 'a lower dg wel, the npper edge of the rail ing' witnesses.

formed with s perforated flange combined with cage wires formed at their lower ends ALFRED CHADWICK. with bends adapted to be enclosed bysaid Witnesses: flange, one of said cage wires projecting be WALTER BUssELL,

yond the rail, forming *a top "dowel, said Gino. S. VVATRoUs. 

